The End of Whiteness

Satanism and Family Murder in South Africa

Synopsis

Towards the end of apartheid, white South Africansfound themselves in the middle of new social andpolitical change that showed itself in some strangelymorbid ‘symptoms’. This book discusses two of theprimary symptoms that appeared in the mediaand in popular literature at the time an apparentthreat from a cult of white Satanists and a so-calledepidemic of white family murder. These two ‘moralpanics’ reveal important truths about the attitudesof white culture at that time, revealing both a socialresponse to fear of change and the effects thatapartheid may have had on those who benefitedfrom it the most.